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i'm so fucking devastated. after two years of wondering why my laptop is so shit at rendering literally any game i found out that nvidia's fuckass default rendering setting was CPU rendering

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so i was thinking about how aphantasia makes it so difficult to play D&D. you know, because once the dm describes like three aspects of the environment, you're already lost and have given up on remembering it.

then i had the most stupid yet genius (kind of, not really) idea. if you can't see the game in your mind, then play a near-sighted or visually impaired character. then your confusion about the environment will be genuinely role-played as a part of your character!

okay i admit that it would take a shitload of homebrewing to make such a character not completely unusable because of D&D rules about the blinded condition but hear me out. idk maybe give them spidey senses? like hightened senses. (i do know that this is not true about actual blind people (or so i've heard idk correct me if i'm wrong)) anyways i'm sure this could maybe potentially possibly work perchance.

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maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth

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you contradict yourself because you contain multitudes. i contradict myself because i am wrong.

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Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

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nothing like two people with obscure music tastes arguing whose music taste is more obscure. "oh yeah? this song i listen to has its number of streams on spotify in the low hundreds!" "jokes on you, the music i listen to isn't even on spotify!"

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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since facebook nixed fact checking some really cool things are being shared and I am totally here for it

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If you catch a linguistics student bent over a book of strange symbols, holding their throat in one hand and making a bunch of strange, disconnected sounds, leave them alone!! They’re studying

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letterpress postcards by Pottering Cat, Japan

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Miluju rohlík. Čerstvý rohlík. Křupavý rohlík. Rohlík s máslem. Rozpečený rohlík. Rohlík sypaný mákem. Rohlík sypaný solí. Rohlík. Rohlík. Rohlík. Rohlík.

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narozen k pití hezkých lattéček v estetických kavárnách, nucen pít kafe z automatu za 10kč

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what's the highest level of language perscriptivism? that we're all just speaking PIE really really wrong?

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všichni moji spolužáci se právě teď šprtaj jak psi na zítřejší dva testy, zatímco já celej den jenom paralyzovaně sedím, protože jsem až moc ve stresu, abych se učil, ale zároveň je tak důležitý, abych to uměl, že moje tělo není schopné dělat cokoliv jinýho než přemýšlet o tom, že bych se měl učit.

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Did grian feel more watcher-like this season to anyone else? Sure he controls what the wildcards are and all that... but did you notice him being more overconfident.

Both his deaths this session was due to him being careless... like he wouldn't be killed. Like he feels invulnerable. (Who else is popularly portrayed as arrogant? The watchers!)

And the canary's curse. He told jimmy he would make sure it comes true. ( Who made the canary's curse? The watchers!)

I feel like the watchers have regained some influence on him. Something gave the watchers more influence on him this season... maybe something in the last life series. Who won the last life series? Scar...